THIS WAY OUT
the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
RUNDOWN for Program #725, distributed 02/18/02
(hosted this week by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
Mark Tewksbury & a P-FLAG Mum help launch Sydney's Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras;
Poland prepares for partner equality, an Italian priest is purged for
performing lesbian & gay unions, Finland's Church won't commit to blessing
same-gender couples, Valentine vows are exchanged at a Mexico City
demonstration, an abusive dad trumps an "inherently evil" lesbian mom in
Alabama's highest court, and other global GLBT news
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Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15
SEGMENT #1 – NewsWrap: On Valentine's Day, Poland's government announces
its draft bill to grant lesbian & gay domestic partners the same legal
standing as unmarried heterosexual cohabitants, while a Roman Catholic priest
in Italy is defrocked and excommunicated for celebrating gay & lesbian
unions, and more than 100 same-gender couples exchange vows in Mexico City in
a demonstration for partnership rights; Finland's state Lutheran Church
decides against blessing same-gender couples, and legal fees and a
contentious family all but defeat an Australian gay man's efforts to inherit
his late partner's estate; the World Bank extends full spousal benefits to
the domestic partners of its gay & lesbian employees, but G&L Bank, the
Florida-based Internet bank founded in 1999 specifically to serve gays &
lesbians, announces its plans to liquidate; for the first time in the U.S.
state of Delaware, a court rules that a non-biological lesbian co-parent can
be sued for child support by her former partner, but the Alabama state
Supreme Court rules that homosexuality alone makes gays & lesbians
"inherently evil" and therefore "unfit" parents; the future of legal
recognition of same-gender couples in Britain becomes uncertain with the
withdrawal of a private members bill to create registered partnerships in
apparent expectation of a similar Government-initiated proposal that the
Cabinet Office then denies is in the works, but Mayor Ken Livingstone sends
Valentines to London's gay & lesbian bars to promote his city's purely
ceremonial Partnerships Register, and singer/songwriter Elton John & his
partner David Furnish and actress Sophie Ward & her partner Rena Brannan are
named "most romantic" queer couples in an online poll by Britain's
Rainbownetwork; openly-gay Sir Ian McKellen gets a Best Supporting Actor
Oscar nomination for his role as Gandalf in "Lord of the Rings", while other
nominations go to two film portrayals of famous bisexuals: "Iris", about
novelist Iris Murdoch, and "A Beautiful Mind" - though the bisexuality of its
subject, famed economist John Forbes Nash, was excised from the film - and
Roger Allam wins Best Actor at the Olivier Awards, Britain's top theatre
honors, for his role as a transvestite soldier in the musical "Privates on
Parade"; and according to openly-gay Congressmember Barney Frank, the
approach of Valentine's Day even had U.S. President George W. Bush in a
flirtatious mood when he met Frank's Spanish-speaking partner Sergio [written
by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, JASON LIN, BRIAN NUNES,
CHRIS AMBIDGE, REX WOCKNER, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by
CHRISTOPHER GAAL & CINDY FRIEDMAN] [9:25] + "TWO" I.D. by openly-gay
Oscar-nominated actor SIR IAN McKELLEN (with brief intro music from "An
Actor's Life For Me") [:20]. . . . . . . . . . 9:45
SEGMENT #2 - It almost goes without saying that one of the world's biggest
parties is SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA'S GAY & LESBIAN MARDI GRAS. This year's
three-week Festival leading up to the climatic Parade encompasses more than a
hundred events spanning theatre, film, music, visual arts, literature and
community, with new events scheduled specifically for queer youth. The 24th
annual Mardi Gras was officially launched on February 8th with a celebration
in front of the famed Sydney Opera House. Iffy weather kept the crowd
smaller than usual, but the estimated 20,000 who did attend were treated to a
dramatic demonstration of celestial support as lightening flashed behind the
stage all evening. "This Way Out" correspondent MICHAEL SCHEMBRI was on the
scene and produced these highlights from the two-hour event, featuring emcees
drag artist VANESSA WAGNER and lesbian MC IZZY; the humor of "envious and
bitter heterosexual" GRETEL KILEEN, host of the popular Australian version of
TV's "Big Brother"; multi-medal-winning Canadian Olympics swimming champ
MARK TEWKSBURY, who entertainingly and inspirationally explains how sports
saved his life, and how being gay helped him succeed; NAN McGREGOR, the
mother of a gay man and a member of both P-FLAG (Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and the Catholic "Rainbow Sash" Movement, who
poignantly describes how and why she defied her Archbishop during a packed
Church service; and a sample of Festival entertainment, courtesy of musical
comedy star ANGELA TOOHEY and noted flutist JANE RUTTER with an excerpt from
"Forget Your Troubles (C'mon Get Happy)" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 16:25
Closing Continuity/Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:30
TOTAL PROGRAM TIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28:55
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STATION PROMO COPY:
ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON "THIS WAY OUT", OLYMPICS SWIMMING CHAMP MARK
TEWKSBURY AND AN ARCHBISHOP-DEFYING P-FLAG MUM HELP LAUNCH SYDNEY'S GAY AND
LESBIAN MARDI GRAS... IN OTHER NEWS, POLAND PREPARES FOR PARTNER EQUALITY,
AN ITALIAN PRIEST IS PURGED FOR PERFORMING LESBIAN & GAY UNIONS, FINLAND'S
CHURCH WON'T COMMIT TO BLESSING SAME-GENDER COUPLES, VALENTINE'S DAY VOWS
ARE EXCHANGED AT A MEXICO CITY DEMONSTRATION, AND AN ABUSIVE DAD TRUMPS AN
"INHERENTLY EVIL" LESBIAN MOM IN ALABAMA'S HIGHEST COURT.
THOSE STORIES AND MORE THIS WEEK ON "THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE",
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